Falling from the top floor
Your lungs fill like parachutes
The windows go rushing by.
The people inside
They're dressed for the funeral in black and white
These ties strangle our necks, hanging in the closet
Filed in the cubicle
Without a name, just numbers, on the resumé stored in the mainframe, marked for delete
Please take these hands
Throw them in the river
Wash away the things they never held
Please take these hands
Throw me in the river
Don't let me drown before the workday ends
Nine to Five! Nine to Five!
And we're up to our necks
Drowning in the seconds
Ingesting the morning commute
Lost in a dead subway sleep--
Now we lie wide awake in our parents beds
Tossing and turning
Tomorrow we'll get up
and drive to work
in single file
With everyday
Just like the last
Waiting for the life to start, it's always just ahead of the curve..
Please take these hands
Throw them in the river
Wash away the things they never held
Please take these hands
Throw me in the river
Don't let me drown before the workday ends.
Just keep making copies
Of copies
Of copies
When will it end?
It'll never end
'til it gets so bad
That the ink fills in our fingerprints
And the silouhette of your own face becomes the black cloud of war
And even in our dreams we're so afraid the weight will offset who we are.
All those breaths that you took have now been canceled in your lungs.
Last night my teeth fell out like ivory typewriter keys
And all the monuments and skyscrapers burn down themselves
And filled the sea.
Save our ship
The anchor is part of the desk
We can't cut free,
The water is flooding the decks
The memo's sent through the currents
Computers spark like flares
I can see them
They don't touch me
Touch me.
Please someone
Teach me how to swim
Please, dont let me drown
Please don't let me drown